Rondo for piano KV 284f
The Rondo for Piano KV 284f , also known as Bretzenheimer Rondo is a composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , in November 1777. Mannheim was to Caroline Josepha Philippina to give music lessons. Since this rondo was never publicly performed as an independent work, it was considered lost for a long time. Music researchers assume that Mozart later included the work in the piano sonata No. 10 (Mozart) as the final movement.
Emergence
In search of career prospects, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart traveled to Mannheim with his mother from October 30, 1777 to March 14, 1778 on his tour through Europe .
Mannheim was already one of the most famous music metropolis in Europe during the reign of Elector Karl Theodor (Palatinate Bavaria) (Carl). There he tried to convince the elector of his compositional and musical abilities in order to get a job with him at the electoral court. The high expectations of Mozart were not met during this time, despite small appearances. However, he was able to make new contacts, met his future wife Constance Weber and worked temporarily as a music teacher for the young Counts of Bretzenheim at court.
In order to give piano lessons to Karl August and his sister Karoline von Bretzenheim , he wrote the Rondo for Piano KV 284 f . For Comtesse Caroline on November 28 or 29, 1777 . At the same time he wrote in a letter to his father Leopold Mozart :
“But I'll go tomorrow, I've made a rondeau for the Comtesse. Don't I have reason enough to stay here and wait for the end? "
Shortly before a permanent position for Mozart at the electoral court of Karl Theodor (Palatinate Bavaria) was rejected on December 8, 1777, he wrote in another letter five days earlier:
“Now what may happen. If he doesn't keep me, I'll insist on travel money, because I won't give him the rondeau and the Varjazionen! "
Nonetheless, he stayed in Mannheim until March 13, 1778 , before starting a trip to Paris with his mother .
Whereabouts
The history of its origins and the performance before Karl Theodor (Palatinate Bavaria) at the princely court can be traced, but the whereabouts of the rondo is still unknown today. Therefore, it was considered lost for a long time. Ulrich Konrad noted this in his Mozart catalog of works. In the sixth edition of the catalog of Mozart's musical works by Ludwig von Köchel , published in 1964, it is mentioned that the rondo has either been lost or has become one of the piano sonatas. In the 3rd edition of the Köchel catalog , the musicologist Alfred Einstein also considered the possibility that Mozart used the rondo for piano KV 284f in the piano sonata No. 10 (Mozart) composed in 1783 as the (final movement) Allegretto , just like Hanns Dennerlein in his Book The Unknown Mozart . The latter also assumed that Mozart was already playing the piano sonata in C major (KV 330) from memory at a concert that took place in Augsburg on October 22, 1777 . In a letter to his father on November 14, 1777, Mozart wrote that he
"... a magnificent sonata ex c major so out of the head with a rondeau on the last ..."
"... a magnificent sonata in C minor from memory with a rondo as the final movement ..."
played, which was followed by a din and noise, by which he probably meant the applause.
Since around the 1950s, the work has been popularly known and in the media as the “Bretzenheimer Rondo”. On the occasion of the Bretzenheim Culture Days, the historical researcher Hans Schneider tried from 2005 with the help of Wilhelm Schweinhardt and Jürgen Köchel to clarify the whereabouts of the Rondo for Ludwig von Köchel's great-grandson .
Hans Schneider writes about this in the history volume "Bretzenheim ad Nahe, how it became, how it is"
".. so the consideration gains a high degree of probability that the Bretzenheimer Rondo composed for Comtesse Caroline was already part of the Augsburg performance, but that it then, ..., remained in his possession. So it could have been merged again with the Piano Sonata No. 10 (Mozart) in 1783/1784 . "
literature
- Albrecht Goes: Mozart's Letters . 1990, ISBN 978-3-596-22140-0 .
- Hans Schneider: Bretzenheim ad Nahe . Contributions to history and culture. tape 3 , 2000.
- Hans Schneider: Carl August, Imperial Count and Prince of Bretzenheim . His story in pictures. 2009.
- Willi Reich: Mozart's letters . Manesse Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7175-1296-X .
- Karin Welck, Liselotte von Homering: Mozart WA 176 days in Mannheim . Ed .: Ed. Effervescent. Mannheim 1992, ISBN 978-3-89466-014-7 .
- Peter Hermann Jung: Mozart in Mannheim. Station on the path of a musical genius. 2006, ISBN 978-3-631-55496-8 .
- Otto Jahn: WA Mozart: Volumes 1 and 2 . Breitkopf and Härtel, 1856.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Jahn: WA Mozart Volume 2 , 1856, page 127
- ↑ Otto Jahn: WA Mozart Volume 2 , 1856, page 129
- ^ Ulrich Konrad: Mozart catalog of works (Bärenreiter-Verlag 2006), page 156.
- ^ Ludwig Köchel: Directory of all of Mozart's sound works , 6th edition, Wiesbaden 1964.
- ^ Alfred Einstein : Köchelverzeichnis , 3rd edition, 1936, page 355.
- ↑ Hans Dennerlein: The Unknown Mozart - The World of His Piano Works , 1951.
- ↑ Otto Jahn: WA Mozart Volume 1 , 1856, page 372
- ↑ Hans Schneider: Bretzenheim ad Nahe, how it became, how it is , 2015, page 148